This is the "elefante" (elephant) in
their discussion rooms that is ignored.Since the 60% cause is ignored (and considering the past stops to
illegal immigration that have failed i.e. Amnesty, NAFTA, and the creation of DHS), one
would have to be very naïve to take this 2013 reform seriously as it relates to stopping illegal immigration.

I personally think that Mexico has many wonderful people and I have nothing against the Mexican undocumented themselves.I respect how the vast majority love their
families and in fact love Mexico deeply.I do think they are being played as pawns in the bi-national elite's
game of labor in exchange for remittances.I question if it is to their best interests to simultaneously "play along"
with their home government that rejects their needs and the US government that sells
them the hope of citizenship for ten or more years of labor.

Many
citizens here in the US are also beginning to understand how Washington uses
them for immigration politics and financial
gain.Clinton's NAFTA may have helped
the economic interests of the US elite, but for many normal citizens it pushed the undocumented
into our overcrowded medical/educational systems and caused unfair hometown demographic
changes that have all become very problematic.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/immigration-is-a-nafta-pr_b_642484.html

As a retired law enforcement officer I see a
deep rooted Mexican connection between illegal immigration and Washington's fight against illegal
drugs.Here is an institutionalized
governmental program that has been up and running for over 40 years.Is this not comparable to the illegal Mexican
immigration/border security "battles" Washington has officially waged for close to thirty years?At a minimum
both battles encompass Washington programs that increasingly cost
taxpayers billions of dollars more while being ineffective at solving the problems that they were initially created to stop.

Since both Nixon's 1971 War on Drugs and
Reagan's 1986 Amnesty "We the People" now see more potent and
prevalent street drugs than ever before and four times the amount of
undocumented people than ever before.

Washington coddles the Mexican government about
their illegal immigration and illegal drugs, yet together they share 1.25
billion dollars a day in cross border trade?I say it is because of the very lucrative trade that Washington coddles Mexico. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35749.htm